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Letters Patent No. 61,066, dated Tamm-y 8, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-'WEEELS.

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Beit known that I, JASON IIEMENWAY, of Deereld, in the county of Lenawee, and State of Michigan, have invented a new and improved Water-Wheel; and' I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enablezothers skilled in .the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure I is a vertical central section of my invention taken in the line :v ze, fig. 2.

Figure 2 is a horizontal section of the-saine taken in the line yy, iig. 1.

Figure 3 is a detached elevation of the wheel-shaft.

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'Ihis invention relates to' a. new and useful improvement inhorizontal water-wheels, audit consists in a novel application of the buckets, anda inode of adjusting the same, as hereinafter fully shown and described, whereby the capacity of the issues between the buckets vmay be variadas desired, and the wheel adapted to work, under the same velocity, with varying degrees of power commensurate with the quantity of water used.

A. represents the lower part or bottom of the wheel, and B the upper part or rirn. C C are the buckets which are -pivoted .between the lower part and upper rim, as shown at a. These buckets have rods, D, attached to their inner ends, and the inner ends of the rods are connected by pivotal?, to a ring, E, which is tted loosely on the shaft F of the wheel, and has a number of teeth, e, upon it, in which teeth at the lower end a bent lever, G, gears, said lever G being attached to the shaft F by a fulcrum-pin, d, and having its upper end connected by a pivot, e, with-the lower end of a rod, H, which is fitted centrally in the shaft F, and has its upper end attached to a. slide, I, 4which works between guides, ff, on the upper part of the Wheelshaft, as shown in iig. 3. This slide I is operated (raised and lowered) by means of a screw, J, and it will be seen that by turning this screw the rod II may beraisedA and lowered, the bent lever G attached, and-the ring E turned so as to move or adjust the buckets C C', and-regulate the capacity of thc issues g as may be desired. This invention is applicable to either centre or external discharge-wheels. C represents buckets for a centre discharge, and C the bucketsforan external'. discharge-wheel, the arrows 1 representing the passzztgoA of the water in the former case, and the arrows 2 representing the passage of thel water in the latter case. In a centre discharge-wheel a tub or scroll is required around` the wheel, none being required in the external discharge. By those simple means the capacity of the wheel may be adapted to suit the amount of power that it is required to give out, and the wheel run to give outany power less its maximum without using any more than a proportionate amount of water.

I do not claim broadly a horizontal water-wheel provided with adjustable buckets, for they have been previously used; but I do claimlas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The pivoted buckets C C, connected with the ring E, on the Wheel-shaft I", by rods D, in'cornhination with the bent lever G, rod l-I, and screw J, all arranged to operate in the manner substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

. JASON HEMENWAY.

Witnesses:

W. E. BURTON,

AARON HEME'NWAY. 

